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What would you do if you got all ATLA bending powers, with the caveat that every time someone saw you using them, you would lose the power until they looked away again. They can still use other senses (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

One thing I would do is use my water bending powers to open a house painting business (interior/exterior and cabinets). I would promise completely perfect results in 1 day or less with the caveat that the customer cannot be home for 'safety' reasons. Oh! I could partner with an air bender and we could have places completely painted, not a drop spilled, and completely dry in 1 hour or less. Without even over charging people we could do so much volume we'd make bank!

I may or may not be painting right now and hating reality.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That only works for water based paints. What would you do when the customer want oil based paint to be used?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is it only water specifically?
Couldnt it also apply to oil because it's fluid based?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Exactly what a bender can bend has been talked to death through out the years but I don't think a water bender can bend oil. An earth bender can bend lava, a fluid. A water bender can bend ice, a solid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like this is a very philosophical question. Like Toph bended metal, but metal is but one component of earth. Water and oil don’t mix unless under certain circumstances and oil isn’t recognized as being a part of water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Toph can only bend metal due to the impurities in it; highly purified titanium can't be metalbent

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

highly purified titanium can't be metalbent

Fire nation: Write that down WRITE THAT DOWN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oil benders are only rare because of the fire nation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Hm. I think we'd just have to specify our special and unique process only works with water-based paints and primers. Could get away with the hybrid paints though and I think there's good enough hybrid primers to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

I'd earthbend the dopest rock house. Also farming just got a lot cheaper for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is ATLA?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Blood bending to kill anyone who's near enough to see me using it (as soon as they look away)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They don't need to die - you could just blind them essentially the same way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The man chose death. Do not look twice

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Earthbend sand into everyones eyes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, first I'd google what atla bending was. Then we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Avatar The Last Airbender

Bending refers to elemental telekinesis

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Ah right. Well I suppose the first thing would be to get my long skinny blue ass back to Pandora.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would go somewhere where I could build a castle, complete with a moat and some torches, and hope I'm a certain fanon version of the avatar.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not the avatar, you just have all the bending powers in the avatar universe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the difference?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

There are other aspects to being the avatar, such as the avatar state, the avatar cycle, the spiritual abilities, none of which you would have. Also, the avatar's bending powers work even when others watch them do it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Make popcorn in my hands, probably.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'd use airbending to make sure I had a tailwind everywhere I rode my bike, and earthbending to make the wheels spin faster.

Also, waterbending just for hydration and keeping rain off of me.

I guess firebending for when it gets cold or when a vehicle tries to murder me.

Avatar: The bicycle commuter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I'd probably use it to terraform certain urban and suburban places to be more hospitable to wildlife and humans living together. Like guerilla gardening and banksy mixed together.

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